Kilwins

Great selection of ice cream and frozen yogurt here! I got the chocolate chip cookie dough and it was fantastic on a waffle cone. Very rich flavor as I got a double scoop. There is some seating if you would like to stay inside and enjoy your sweets. Pricing isnt too bad and woman working there was real nice.

Get the seasonal apple pie icecream. Or may be the most delicious flavor I’ve ever had anywhere. It tastes like a creamy version of the classic desert. A bite of the icecream tastes like apple pie a la mode.

This was was exactly the kind of ice cream shop I was looking for in Hyde Park this afternoon with my kids. The place is charming, ice cream was delicious, cool fudge candies. Feeling good on a sunny October afternoon. Until the cashier barked at us for looking into the fudge machine.

Really good chocolate covered strawberries. Just expensive. So don’t be alarm. But don’t be afraid to treat yourself.

No issues with Kilwins. This is the best ice cream that always taste as if it was made in the back of the store. Very nice youngins working the front counters and always polite. The store is very clean and there is always a sample of something floating around. The prices can be a bit much, but ice cream is like gold. Gonna be expensive wherever you buy this frozen cow titty juice.

I bought several candies– pecan turtles, dark chocolate toffee, hazelnut truffles, Irish truffles of which the toffee was a definite hit. Do try. The turtle was good. and the truffles were aiight. I sampled several ice creams apple pie-​good, Hyde park mashup (I believe)-not really my thing but it wasn’t bad, salted caramel-​decent and Mackinac fudge-​decent. I ended up going with a Mackinac fudge and salted caramel mix. I appreciate that you can mix flavors. Renee assisted me and she was pretty awesome. They are on the pricier side. A hand-​packed pint is like $ 13.00 but it’s a chocolate shop so for me it was worth trying.

I had cheesecake and toasted coconut in a homemade waffle bowl, and it was all delicious! My mom, who doesn’t like ice cream much even loved it! It was very good. Highly recommended. The service isn’t super friendly, but they are fast and to the point. I can tell they are used to having lines constantly. Would definitely go back!

They don’t publicize their prices! I was astonished that a scoop cost me over 5 dollars!

On my last visit I found out the owner keeps 100% of her employees’ tips as profit. The tip jar appears to be for employees, but the tips collected for their great service are kept by the business. This is trickery towards generous customers and stealing from employees. The quality of the ice cream and fudge here is great, but I won’t be back unless I hear that this has been fixed.

Great ice cream flavors and most of all the service is awesome!!! I will always come back for great customer service.!! :)

This is a very nice low key shop. They have a variety of ice creams, dipped fruits and gourmet chocolates. They let you sample any ice cream you please. They have a few flavors that would definitely make you want to try it. They have a Hyde park flavor, chocolate brownie, sorbets and New Orleans pecan which is amazing and more! Now even though I have a lot of good things to say about them I do have one problem… They’re prices are not realistic. It’s $ 4.25 for a single scoop of ice cream in a bowl and $ 5.25 for 1 scoop of ice cream on a waffle cone. I’m all for supporting black businesses but let’s be realistic how many families can really afford to come to this place and enjoy some ice cream? With tax I spent $ 10 for 2 individual scoops of ice cream. It’s a great place I would come here for special occasions only I will still to my store bought Talenti in the mean time

On quality of product I rate Kilwin’s 4 – 5 stars. On this past Sunday evening I was inspired to stop in for a «hand-​packed» quart of salted caramel ice cream which is Kilwin’s signature ice cream. It’s really good and very expensive ($ 15.00) but I don’t complain. However on this occasion I have to let you know that I wasn’t pleased with the service. When asked if I needed help, I specifically asked the young lady for salted caramel ice cream — hand-​packed. The term hand-​packed must have thrown her for a loop and she eventually understood and went to the carton to get the quart packed for me. So popular is the item that the container was empty and hadn’t been replaced. She was a bit confused on where to look for another container and requested help from another employee. Eventually they pulled out a container from the back freezer as I was getting anxious. So after a while the young lady who was hardly interested in working this evening finished packing up my quart, asked if I wanted a bag (yes) and lamely said have a nice evening. Now I’m okay all the young folks «tude» if the service is up to snuff. But when I got home to serve myself and spouse a dish, I noticed the ice cream was not even remotely packed. It was loosely dropped into the container and after serving a small dish there was less than half of the quart remaining! And at 15 dollars a quart, I may head back to the grocery store for the regular overprice choices.
So, please let your employees know that this product is very expensive and everyone knows it when you get to the register. I don’t need fake happy customer service but genuine good service.
It will be a while before I go back…

First off, amazing fudge, the best around, and you can just about always find a groupon for half off fudge too, which comes in handy since the quality is worth the money. The Hyde park mud flavor is the best, highly recommend. It’s white chocolate which usually isn’t my favorite since in a choco-​holic, but the giant chocolate chips and homemade caramel throughout makes it so tasty.
In close competition for best caramel you’ll find in Hyde Park, right with Amy’s. The texture is perfect, and buttery.
Amazing selection of chocolate and caramel dipped treats that beautifully displayed right when you walk in.
The ice cream looks amazing always, superman is my favorite and you can almost never find it anymore.

Overpriced and not worth it. I would have preferred a Chick-​Fil-​A milkshake over that $ 8 blend of dairy.

The turtle ice cream sundae I had from them was amazing.
The 8 bucks I paid for it was not.
Save $ 3 and go to Baskin Robbins.

I promised my daughter a milkshake. Ice cream options in Hyde Park are pretty limited, and generally for shakes, your best bet is Medici bakery on 57^th Street. But they were closed over the holidays, so I thought I’d give Kilwins a try.
I ordered a chocolate malt and a mocha shake. $ 18.90. More than $ 9 for a milkshake.
Milkshakes are not nine dollars. At a chain restaurant in the suburbs, I would expect to pay $ 3-​$ 4. At an independent ice cream place in Chicago — $ 6.50? Sure. $ 7.50? Eh, pushing it, but yeah sure. $ 9? Get lost. You are gouging me based on the fact that this neighborhood is full of people who either have enough money they don’t care or not enough so they don’t even walk in the door.
Don’t pay $ 9 for a milkshake, unless it is some novelty 32-​oz thing or it’s full of whiskey. Don’t buy ice cream at Kilwins.

What a great candy shop with the ice cream parlor touch.
This place was a hit when I walked in the door seeing all kinds of treats and a open kitchen like area on the side were the Apple dipping fun takes place.
Yes I was a kid in the candy store pointing my fat finger at everything lol.
Until my son said mom
Then my back in the days kid feeling went away
Man kids will do it every time.
Well he got a Oreo cookie Milk Shake and a Taffy Apple. (of course)
Now my turn
I got 2 turtle Cashews clusters 2 Carmel candy rolls and 3 pecan clusters.
When I got home it was a party with great chocolate for me
This place has a warm café style to it and a great Hyde Park upscale touch.
I have to say this place is in a great location but if you know Hyde Park area then you know that parking is a job.
Happy sweet treats

I’m from San Francisco, so I don’t get to experience the perfection that is Kilwins. Not until I fly to Chicagoland to see my mommy!
Recently I did just that. And when she asked me where I wanted to go for ice cream, what do you think I said? DUH! TAKE ME TO KILWINS!
It was a few years prior during a visit with her that I experienced Kilwins for the first time. I ordered the banana chocolate chip ice cream and went to sit down and enjoy it with her. Seconds passed, and my ice cream had vanished! The only way to fix this problem was to order even more. I think I had 5 scoops total? Yep. And I could have had more, my friends.
So, when I went back this year, we went to Kilwins. A few times. I think I ate all their banana chocolate chip.

Updated with lower review: got a groupon and the process was a mess!!! Charge for an extra box 4.00 charge for another flavor 3.00 each chocolate chosen! Why offer a groupon. Owner was sloppy!
I love that you can see the fudge being made or the chocolate covered strawberries being dipped. They have a wide assortment of treats :-) Everything I tried so far is great and I have a serious sweet tooth. The added lounge was a plus. You can sit back and enjoy your treats. My favorite is the Hyde park fudge. Yum. By the way… they have a rewards program for frequent visitors.

Kilwins is a nice and upscale, albeit expensive, addition to the Hyde Park food scene.
I lived around the corner from Kilwins for several months, but didn’t stop by until I was lured in one day by a man in a moose costume…
The inside was very cute. It was definitely modern, but styled with some vintage, «old time candy store» flair. The store smelled like fresh chocolate, and they had some candy samples out, which were pretty tasty.
But since it was a hot day, I was in the mood for ice cream.
My friends and I spent a long time trying to figure out the flavor of ice cream that we wanted. But the staff was very patient with us and happily made recommendations and gave us samples. When i saw the Superman flavor, I instantly felt so nostalgic for my childhood favorite flavor. Right now, I generally like flavors like peanut butter, pistachio, or strawberry, and certainly nothing too «colorful.» But I made an exception that day. And to take reliving my childhood all the way, I got a milkshake. That’s right, a Superman milkshake. It turned a really bright, unnatural shade of blue, but I had no shame that day. It was delicious!
But besides the fact that it is a lot of sugar to have at once, and it is a flavor I don’t normally choose, this is a treat that I will only have once in a while because it was very expensive. My small milkshake was over $ 7. I honestly cannot remember how much my friends’ single scoop ice cream cones costed, but I do remember them being dissatisfied about the price to portion ratio. This is not ideal for a part of town that is filled with budget conscious university students.
Kilwins is a great dessert option in Hyde Park, but I will save it for special occasions because of the high prices!